Paul Brace is the Clarence L. Carter Chair of Legal Studies in the Department of Political Science at Rice University.  He has published research in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Polity, Social Science Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly and other journals.  He is co-author of Follow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern Presidents (Basic Books, 1992), author of State Government and Economic Performance (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993) and co-editor of The Presidency in American Politics(NYU Press, 1989) and American State and Local Politics (Chatham House, 1999). 

He has served on numerous editorial boards including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, American Review of Politics, Albany Law Review, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, State and Local Government Review, and has served on the Law and Social Science Advisory Panel for the National Science Foundation.  He has received awards for teaching (1989), advising (1996), mentoring (1999), best book (1993) and best conference paper (1996, 2000, 2005). Presently he is involved in a five-year project funded bythe National Science Foundation to study American State Supreme Courts.

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